Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame
William J. “Bill” Locker, you’ve never strayed far from Montgomery County. Although you were born in New Castle, you graduated from Crawfordsville High School as that school’s finest golfer in history, and continued your excellent play on the links as a Little Giant. At CHS, you helped your team win state championships in 1954 and 1956, and a runner-up title in 1955. During your time at CHS, your teams were 34-1.
At Wabash, you were a four-time Most Valuable Golfer and were a member of Wabash’s only Little State Championship team in 1957. Indeed, you are the only Wabash athlete from a Montgomery County high school to play on state championship teams at both levels—your back-to-back state high school and Little State Championships in 1956 and 1957 earned your induction into Crawfordsville’s Athletic Hall of Fame. That 1957 Wabash team was terrific, and your steady play helped the Little Giant linksters go 13-3, losing only to IU, Illinois, and Notre Dame. That was the year you fired a 71 to earn medalist honors at Little State.
You were drafted in the U.S. Army as a senior, and assigned to Fort Lee in Virginia. As an aide in clinical psychology, you won the 1963 Army golf championship, defeating some of the best amateur golfers in the nation. You would go on to work for 33 years for Raybestos Products in Crawfordsville, continuing to serve your church and play rounds of golf at Rocky Ridge Golf Course, where you are a member.
For bringing honor to your alma mater as the most celebrated golfer in school history, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to induct you, William J. “Bill” Locker, in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame.
